Danny Glover links Second Amendment to slavery

Monday, January 21, 2013

According to the Huffington Post, actor Danny Glover said that the Second Amendment was written to protect against slave insurrection at a Martin Luther King Jr. event at Texas A&M, Jan. 17. A conservative student group is launching a petition against the school’s “leftist bias.”

“I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” Glover said. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. So, a revolt from people who were stolen from their land, or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that’s what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.”